Man with a gun who ran from police found hiding in East Bremerton woods

BREMERTON - A Bremerton man who ran from police Wednesday night after he saw them approaching the East Bremerton house where he was staying was later found hiding in the brush with a rifle and a handgun.

A Kitsap County Sheriff's Office deputy tried to contact the 31-year-old, who was at a house along the 1000 block of NE McWilliams Road, at 8:40 p.m. The deputy had been told the man had sold a stolen shotgun to a family member, according to sheriff's office reports.

The 31-year-old saw the deputy coming on a video surveillance system. He grabbed a soft rifle case with a semi-automatic rifle inside and a semi-automatic handgun and a backpack and ran from the house toward the woods, according to reports.

Additional deputies and a Washington State Patrol airplane were called to help search for the man, including a deputy with a police dog. While he waited for more deputies to arrive the deputy spoke with a man at the house who said he had been in a fight with the 31-year-old, and that the 31-year-old pointed a handgun at his head and said he would "blow him away," according to reports.

With the help of an infrared device from the WSP plane, police found the man hiding in the brush off Beaumont Lane in the Blueberry Meadows neighborhood off Pine Road NE.

The man was arrested without incident at 11:15 p.m. He was armed with the rifle and handgun, according to reports. Both guns were stolen. He was taken to Kitsap County jail where he is being held on $500,000 bail.